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Mark 10 — Sermon Preparation
Jesus teaches on divorce, blesses children, challenges a rich man, responds to James and John's request, and heals blind Bartimaeus. Below is a research summary for Mark 10, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 52
- verses
- 881 / 248
- Greek words / lemmas
- 64
- classic sermon excerpts
- 7
- preachers & commentators
Mark 10 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| εἷς | heîs | G1520 | 7 | a, abundantly, man, one |
| ἄρχω | árchomai | G756 | 5 | begin |
| υἱός | huiós | G5207 | 6 | child, foal, son |
| βασιλεία | basileía | G932 | 5 | kingdom, reign |
| θέλω | thélō | G2309 | 5 | desire, be disposed, intend, list |
| μαθητής | mathētḗs | G3101 | 5 | disciple |
| ἀπολύω | apolýō | G630 | 4 | depart, dismiss, divorce, forgive |
How preachers through history handled this text
64 public-domain excerpts on Mark 10, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Christ's going on with his undertaking for the salvation of mankind, was, is, and will be, the wonder of all his disciples. Worldly honour is a glittering thing, with which the eyes of Christ's own disciples have many times been dazzled. Our care must be, that we may have wisdom and grace to know how to suffer with him; and we may trust him to provide what the degrees of our glory shall be. Christ shows them that dominion was generally abused in the world. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Mark 10:32–45 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Capernaum— Mark 10:1
- Jordan— Mark 10:1
- Judea 1— Mark 10:1
- Jerusalem— Mark 10:17
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